By webmaster [at] nano [dot] lu [dot] se (Evelina Lindén) - published 14 January 2025 Synchrotron radiation researcher Ziyun Huang shows how to grow free-standing perovskite nanowires in a ligand-free way. The yield is dramatically improved using a controlled nitrogen flow, and in situ microscopy is used to visualize the growth dynamics. Synchrotron radiation researcher Ziyun Huang shows how to gr

https://www.nano.lu.se/article/ligand-free-method-grow-vertically-aligned-free-standing-nanowires - 2025-04-17

By webmaster [at] nano [dot] lu [dot] se (Evelina Lindén) - published 25 November 2024 Using superconducting semiconductor hybrids, Subhomoy Haldar, David Barker, Harald Havir, Antti Ranni, Sebastian Lehmann, Kimberly Thelander, and Ville Maisi has demonstrated a continuous microwave photon detection using superconducting semiconductor hybrids. Microwave Photons contain about five orders of magnit

https://www.nano.lu.se/article/continuous-microwave-photon-counting-semiconductor-superconductor-hybrids - 2025-04-17

By webmaster [at] nano [dot] lu [dot] se (Johan Lindskoug and Evelina Lindén) - published 5 December 2024 Armin Tavakoli receives the Sten von Friesen Prize. Photo: Johan Lindskoug Quantum physicist gets prize from renowned Academy for the Natural Sciences, Medicine and Technology, founded in 1772. Armin Tavakoli's research focuses on the complex phenomena that characterize the quantum world, wher

https://www.nano.lu.se/article/royal-physiographic-society-gives-sten-von-friesen-prize-armin-tavakoli - 2025-04-17

By webmaster [at] nano [dot] lu [dot] se (Jessika Sellergren) - published 16 January 2025 A few minutes in the same room as an infected person is enough to catch the virus yourself. Here, aerosol researcher Malin Alsved collects virus aerosols from an infected person in a mobile laboratory during the pandemic. Photo: Jakob Löndahl The winter season virus has struck – and covid-19 is still part of

https://www.nano.lu.se/article/how-fast-you-can-catch-covid-19-through-air - 2025-04-17

Published 30 January 2025 NanoLund researchers publish exciting breakthroughs in Nature on high-impedance microwave resonators with two-photon nonlinear effects. Samuel Andersson, Harald Havir, Antti Ranni, Subhomoy Haldar, and Ville Maisi have unveiled groundbreaking work on high-impedance microwave resonators with two-photon nonlinear effects. By leveraging a Josephson junction-based design, thi

https://www.nano.lu.se/article/novel-energy-diagram-technique-analyzing-multi-photon-processes-precision - 2025-04-17

By webmaster [at] nano [dot] lu [dot] se (Evelina Lindén) - published 6 February 2025 New investments will help to ensure that Sweden has a well-functioning chain of companies, research institutes and resources that can manufacture the materials and components needed in semiconductor technology. Photo: Johan Persson The Swedish Agency for Economic and Regional Growth – Tillväxtverket – allocates S

https://www.nano.lu.se/article/semiconductor-ecosystem-be-strengthened - 2025-04-17

By webmaster [at] nano [dot] lu [dot] se (Evelina Lindén) - published 13 February 2025 Vanya Darakchieva is one of the chairs in the coming-up conference ICNS-15. Photo: Jonas Tegenfeldt The 15th International Conference on Nitride Semiconductors (ICNS-15) is just around the corner. Taking place in Malmö, July 6–11, the conference will showcase groundbreaking advancements in materials, physics, op

https://www.nano.lu.se/article/gearing-nitride-semiconductors-conference-icns-15 - 2025-04-17

By webmaster [at] nano [dot] lu [dot] se (Heiner Linke) - published 20 January 2025 The problem with hares… reysphoto/Shutterstock Modern computers are a triumph of technology. A single computer chip contains billions of nanometre-scaled transistors that operate extremely reliably and at a rate of millions of operations per second. However, this high speed and reliability come at the cost of signi

https://www.nano.lu.se/article/biological-computers-could-use-far-less-energy-current-technology-working-more-slowly - 2025-04-17

Published 18 February 2025 “I am honored and grateful for NJP’s recognition,” says Armin Tavakoli, standing before Rydberg formula at the Department of Physics. Photo: Johan Lindskoug. Armin Tavakoli, Assistant Professor at Mathematical Physics, has been awarded the prestigious New Journal of Physics (NJP) Early Career Award 2024 for his outstanding contributions to quantum information science. Th

https://www.nano.lu.se/article/recognizing-excellence-quantum-information-research - 2025-04-17

By webmaster [at] nano [dot] lu [dot] se (Evelina Lindén) - published 4 March 2025 Red quantum dots meet Hongkong’s Light Show, where NanoLund PhD student Linnéa Jönsson spent almost seven weeks on a research visit in 2024. Linnéa Jönsson and Patrik Nilsson were two of the PhD students who seized the opportunity to have a research visit financed by NanoLund last year. This is a support that NanoLu

https://www.nano.lu.se/article/electrospray-and-surface-plasmon-resonance-spectroscopy-phd-students-broadened-their-horizons - 2025-04-17

By webmaster [at] nano [dot] lu [dot] se (Evelina Lindén) - published 5 March 2025 Electron microscopy image of algae sitting on the nanowires. Picture: Martin Hjort Polymer nanowires remain conductive after lithography-free manufacturing enabling an excellent path for intracellular bioelectronic manipulation of stem cells and algae. A new study spearheaded by NanoLundians Damien Hughes and Martin

https://www.nano.lu.se/article/making-conductive-polymer-nanowires-probe-cells - 2025-04-17

By webmaster [at] nano [dot] lu [dot] se (Tiina Meri) - published 25 February 2025 The Boards of the Faculty of Engineering (LTH) and the Faculty of Science have decided to aim for a more modest establishment in Science Village, i.e. the area between Max IV and ESS. They justify the decision by the fact that the Departments of Physics and Chemistry would incur high rental costs if both research an

https://www.nano.lu.se/article/establishment-operations-underway-it-will-be-smaller-scale-and-first-and-second-cycle-studies-will - 2025-04-17

By webmaster [at] nano [dot] lu [dot] se (Jessika Sellergren) - published 6 March 2025 Vanya Darakchieva and Andri Dhora work on the PLD apparatus. Photo: Jenny Leyman What is the perfect recipe for semiconductors? Vanya Darakchieva is working on the answer in her research on novel semiconductor materials. As a professor of solid state physics at the Faculty of Engineering (LTH), she is a “researc

https://www.nano.lu.se/article/research-chef-refines-recipe-semiconductors-0 - 2025-04-17

By webmaster [at] nano [dot] lu [dot] se (Evelina Lindén) - published 28 February 2025 From the abstract: Two-dimensional semiconducting transition metal dichalcogenides are promising materials for optoelectronic applications due to their strongly bound excitons. Dark excitons are material excitations not visible under light illumination. Some acquire intrinsic momentum and become inherently mobil

https://www.nano.lu.se/article/dark-excitons-may-be-suitable-charge-transport-future-solar-cell-technologies - 2025-04-17

By webmaster [at] nano [dot] lu [dot] se (Evelina Lindén) - published 24 March 2025 Supported lipid bilayer formation on highly curved nanowire sensors is accelerated by energetically favored expansion, revealed by tracking vesicle adsorption and dynamics via fluorescence-enhanced lightguiding nanowires. Supported lipid bilayers are formed at a faster rate on light-guiding nanowires of high curvat

https://www.nano.lu.se/article/role-nanowires-support-formation-model-lipid-membranes - 2025-04-17

Publicerad 25 september 2023 Den svartvita flugsnapparen fick flytthjälp av forskarna från Nederländerna till Lund. Foto: Viiru Pesonen/Wikimedia Commons. Klimatförändringar gör att våren kommer tidigare. Men flyttfåglarna hänger inte med i svängarna och kommer för sent till födan när de ska häcka. Genom att få fåglarna att flyga lite längre norrut har forskare i Lund och i Nederländerna sett att

https://www.naturvetenskap.lu.se/artikel/flyttfaglar-tar-langre-flygturer-att-ge-sina-ungar-en-battre-start-i-livet - 2025-04-17

Publicerad 29 september 2023 Plastavfall är ett enormt problem idag, inte minst hamnar stora mängder mikro- och nanoplast i våra jordar. Foto: Flockine/Pixabay. Genom att använda mikrodesignade jordmodeller har forskare vid Lunds universitet undersökt hur pyttesmå partiklar av polystyren påverkar bakterier och svampar. Trots att denna nanoplast minskade både bakterie- och svamptillväxten lyckades

https://www.naturvetenskap.lu.se/artikel/dammsugareffekt-hos-svampar-kan-halla-nanoplastpartiklar-i-schack - 2025-04-17

Publicerad 29 september 2023 Professor Anders Mikkelsen, här utanför fysiska institutionen, ser fram emot att dra i gång arbetet med det nya excellenscentrumet. Anders Mikkelsen, professor i synkrotronljusfysik och föreståndare för NanoLund, är projektledare för ett nytt centrum som fått medel från Vinnova. Under fem år ska en månghövdad hjärntrust från universitetet och industrin arbeta med hur m

https://www.naturvetenskap.lu.se/artikel/fysikprofessor-ska-leda-nytt-excellenscentrum - 2025-04-17

Publicerad 3 oktober 2023 Anne L'Huillier, professor i atomfysik vid fysiska institutionen, är en av årets Nobelpristagare i fysik! Läs mer om Anne L'Huillier: Nobelpriset i fysik 2023 | Lunds universitet (lu.se)

https://www.naturvetenskap.lu.se/artikel/nobelpris-till-lund - 2025-04-17

Publicerad 11 oktober 2023 Mats E. Eriksson, professor i paleontologi, visar upp sin skönlitterära debut utanför geologiska institutionen. Mats E. Eriksson, professor i paleontologi vid geologiska institutionen, har gjort sig känd för att namnge fossil efter hårdrocksstjärnor. Nu debuterar han med pikareskromanen Death: The Antidote To Misery där både skräckrockare, forskare och konstentusiaster f

https://www.naturvetenskap.lu.se/artikel/geologiprofessor-gor-skonlitterar-debut-om-death-metal-fossil-och-ond-brad-dod - 2025-04-17